Seeks to describe modified laws of acceleration and gravity

Details are available in the January 10th, 2006, edition of The Astrophysical Journal 636, pp. 721-741. The paper entitled "Galaxy Rotation Curves Without Nonbaryonic Dark Matter" is co-authored by John Moffat, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Joel Brownstein, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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